Antidote
Playlist - 71 Songs
Antidote is home to the best new alternative music in the UK and beyond—a celebration of independence, innovation, and artists who don’t just push boundaries but reduce them to rubble. This week, Lola Young’s “d£aler” headlines the playlist, its ’80s-nodding synth-pop and scratchy guitar shrouding thoughts of self-sabotage and ill-advised escape. It’s taken from Young’s forthcoming album I’m Only F**king Myself (due on September 19)—a record fueled by unflinching self-analysis. “I went through a whole load of personal things in the past couple of years and went through my own journey of self-sabotage. Just really unpacking a lot of inner demons and knowing, and looking at them directly in the face and going, ‘You know what? I can’t continue down this road,’” she told Elton John on his Apple Music Radio show Rocket Hour. “And so I wrote this album about that. When you write music, it can heal, it can take you out of a place. It can actually help you along this journey that life is, and it can help you go, ‘Wow, hang on a second: I am not who I was.’ And the album is a representation of who you were at that moment in time.” Like all the artists featured, Antidote is always evolving—so keep checking back, and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.
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